Celebrating Bravery

Activities

Every autumn the Monte San Martino Trust holds an annual Fontanellato lunch, with a guest speaker, at the Royal Overseas League in London. Together with the WW2 Escape Lines Memorial Society, in May it co-hosts an annual Freedom Trail in the Tenna Valley in Italy’s le Marche region, holding ceremonies in villages which hid escaping PoWs. A 75th anniversary celebration of the escape of 600 PoWs from PG49 Fontanellato will take place in the town in September 2018. The Trust also collaborates with the Istituto Storico in Emilia-Romagna, which holds a course on wartime studies in return for bursaries.

Blogs

News

Freedom trails

Annual Luncheons

Moral Courage Award

MSMT is honouring the courage of the Italians who sheltered escaping PoWs with its “Moral Courage Award 2018”. The scheme runs in Lucca Province, in co-operation with the Institute for the History of the Resistance and the Contemporary Age, Lucca (ISREC). Read the English version

Fontanellato celebration 2018

The town of Fontanellato, from where 600 Allied prisoners of war escaped in 1943 after the Armistice with Italy, has invited supporters of MSMT to celebrate the 75th anniversary of the event in September 2018. Read more

Frank Unwin’s memoirs

Accounts of incarceration as a PoW in Italy and Germany will have an important addition in April Memoirs of Frank Unwin when Frank Unwin, MBE, publishes his story of capture and escape. Memoirs of Frank Unwin

Tenna Valley Trail 2018

The annual Tenna Valley Freedom Trail, co-hosted by MSMT and the Escape Lines Memorial Society, runs from May 16-21, 2018. Read more